Tennis Atlantic’s hosts Steen Kirby and Courtney Massey, along with The Grandstand’s Ricky Dimon, were joined by Tennis Atlantic life on tour player Jean-Yves Aubone, Joey Hanf of The Tennis Nerds, and Valerie David of Tennis Inside Out to discuss the men’s and women’s Australian Open finales for 2015, and everything that went down in week 2 of the tournament, including Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych, Rafael Nadal, Madison Keys, Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams and more! In addition, the issue of match fixing in tennis was discussed.

Thanks for watching, and we will be back close to Indian Wells with new guests, and a discussion of everything prior to that tournament, along with a lookahead to the first Masters 1000 event of the year.

Tennis Atlantic’s hosts Steen Kirby and Courtney Massey were joined by Tennis Atlantic life on tour player Jean-Yves Aubone, Joey Hanf of The Tennis Nerds, and Valerie David of Tennis Inside Out to discuss the halfway mark of the 2015 Australian Open on the men’s and women’s side. Watch the crew break down all the action during the first week of the tournament, and analyze the week ahead in Melbourne, including picks for champion on both the men’s and women’s side. Nick Kyrgios, Tim Smyczek, Roger Federer’s loss to Andreas Seppi, Andy Murray, Denis Kudla, Madison Keys, and more were all topics of discussion among our analysts.

Thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of the Australian Open! We’ll be back next with a new panel and a break down of everything AO week 2.

Episode 2 of Tennis Atlantic/The Grandstand’s Courtside Videocast Discussing the Australian Open Men’s and Women’s Draws and More!Staff, Tennis Atlantic

Tennis Atlantic/The Grandstand’s Courtside Videocast

In our second episode of the Courtside Videocast, in partnership with The Grandstand, Steen Kirby, Courtney Massey, Niall Clarke and Chris de Waard, all from right here at Tennis Atlantic, were joined by Ricky Dimon of The Grandstand and Joe Craven of the twitterverse and Mens Tennis Forums to discuss the Australian Open Mens and Womens draws, along with some of the tennis that took place this week. The videocast is below and we hope you enjoy, as always, comments, questions and feedback are welcome.

Tennis Atlantic is proud to partner with Ricky Dimon’s The Grandstand to bring you a brand new ATP/WTA discussion show, the Courtside videocast. Episodes will be centered around the biggest events on the yearly tennis calendar, including the slams, and are set to feature as hosts Tennis Atlantic’s Steen Kirby and Courtney Massey, along with Ricky Dimon of The Grandstand.

In addition to the expertise and talent of our hosts, a rotating panel of tennis analysts will be joining the videocast to discuss interesting and popular topics around the tennis world, including on and off court news, results and headlines from the ATP and WTA tour and more.

In our inaugural Google Hangout episode, held yesterday afternoon, Steen, Courtney and Ricky were joined by journalists Niall Clarke and Jeff McMillan, both from Tennis Atlantic, and Jared Pine of Second Serb. They discussed some pre-draw Australian Open predictions, talked about some of the action on and off the court from the first week of the 2015 pro tennis season, broke down the ATP Sydney and Auckland draws, and discussed some solutions to the issue of star players pulling out of smaller ATP and WTA tournaments, in order to prioritize the Grand Slams and other big events, made notable by the situations of Eugenie Bouchard and Hong Kong last year, and David Ferrer and John Isner with the ATP Auckland tournament this week.There was also some discussion of injured players like Juan Martin Del Potro returning to the ATP tour and thoughts about what the future holds for them.

Please check out the hangout below, and we plan to have our next one after the Australian Open draw is released. Feel free to contact us here, or on Twitter if you have questions, comments, feedback or anything else to share with us about the Videocast.

Thanks for watching!

*The tweet mentioned by Steen during the broadcast was this one from our own Chris de Waard.